Roy Lichtenstein’s long-lost Anxious Girl (1964) is up for auction this weekend and is rumored to go for $60 million. Roy was a leading artist in the Pop Art movement. Some of his best known pieces were large stylized pieces that looked like cut-outs from a newspaper or comic book. Anxious Girl was derived by DC […]

French-Iranian artist, author, and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has passed away at the age of 56. Marjane is perhaps best known for her autobiographical graphic novel “Persopolis” and the film she directed by the same name.The family released a statement announcing the death to AFP: Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after […]

The Herblock Prize Event Ceremony was held earlier tonight. This year’s recipient, Jack Ohman (San Francisco Chronicle) was on hand to receive the prize. Mike Rhode has a brief post with photos over on Comics DC blog. Mike reports that Matt Wuerker, Steve Artkey, Kevin Kallaugher, Joel Pett, Nik Kowsar, Caroline Belefski, among others were […]

Lee Lai’s graphic novel Cannon has become the first graphic novel to win the Stella Prize given to women and nonbinary Australian authors. The prize amount is $60,000. She is also the first trans person to win the award.Here’s how Lee describes her book (per ABC): “[Cannon] is a story about small-scale human follies and […]

The last turn in events with the Angoulême festival drama is news that the former organizer, 9eArt+, has been placed in judicial liquidation by the Commercial Court of Angoulême. 9eArt+ also reveals that it is €1.6 million in debt. This development is not related to the legal battle between 9eArt+ and l’Association pour le développement […]

According to The Independent, Lee Mendelson Film Productions has filed four lawsuits against for entities who allegedly violated copyright in using music without permission. The four entities are the Interior Department, Heritage Auctions, Buckle-Down Inc., GameMill Entertainment. According to the lawsuits, the Interior Department allegedly used Vince Guaraldi’s O Tannenbaum in social media posts and […]

The UK Press Awards has named Matt Pritchett their 2026 Cartoonist of the Year at last nights awards ceremony. The Press Awards recognizes the “best of national journalism in the UK.” Matt has been with The Telegraph since 1988.Unfortunately, at the moment, the Press Awards website’s has the wrong description and judges comments for his […]

The Eisner Award nominees have been announced. Here’s the breakdown on who had the most nominations starting with the publishers.Works with the most nominations:Creator stats:Here is full list of nominees.Eisner Award Nominees 2026Best Short StoryBlood Harvest, in Brain Damage, by Shintaro Kago, translated by Zack Davisson (Fantagraphics)The Curse Room, in Brain Damage, by Shintaro Kago, translated by Zack Davisson (Fantagraphics)Football Is Not War, by R. K. Russell and Wilfred Santiago, in Come […]

Russian artist, caricaturist, and frequent President Vladimir Putin critic Semyon Skrepetsky (real name was Robert Kuzovkov), was shot dead yesterday in Polish city of Biała Podlaska. The shooting is described at close range. Polish police believe the killing was a targeted, but have not offered a motive.Three days prior to the killing, Semyon had protested […]

The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) has announced their shortlist for their GMIC Awards for outstanding health-related comic projects completed and/or published in 2025. There are three categories, long-form, short-form, and educational, with five finalists in each category. Winners will be announced at their annual conference in Baltimore on July 25.Here are the finalists:EducationalLong FormShort […]

This week’s rabbit hole technically started last week. Whilst scrolling on Bluesky, I noted Mark Kaufman had reposted a video animation of Nancy dancing to a song on a record player. Since I follow current Nancy cartoonist Caroline Cash and the Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller Bluesky accounts seeing Nancy on my feed is not […]

In what would normally be great news for Archie Comics—a Hollywood deal to bring the Archie to the silver screen—has opened up a legal can of worms for co-CEO Jonathan Goldwater. Raven Capital Management claims that Goldwater defaulted on a loan in 2024 giving them control of the intellectual property and the deal with Universal […]